Month: September 2023
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REVIEW OF HOW TO READ, BY J. B. KERFOOT, PART 5 OF 7
J. B. Kerfoot believes that the ends of the reading impulses are seeking out truths (truths with a small t). Searching for truths is the searching out of discoverable relationships of meaning between the life within us and the life outside us. How this relationship is built between a reader…
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REVIEW OF HOW TO READ, BY J. B. KERFOOT, PART 4 OF 7
This blog entry in reviewing How to Read, by J. B. Kerfoot will consider the third area of involvement of Kerfoot’s constructive and critical orientation in learning how to read: the Driving Impulses for Reading, and the Direction that Personal Reading Should Take. Kerfoot says the reasons for reading lie…
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REVIEW OF HOW TO READ, BY J. B. KERFOOT, PART 3 OF 7
This is the third blog entry on reviewing How to Read, by J. B. Kerfoot. It will consider the second area of involvement of Kerfoot’s constructive and critical orientation to learning how to read: handling the meaning of words. Kerfoot views word meanings from reading words in a sentence to…
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REVIEW OF HOW TO READ, BY J. B. KERFOOT, PART 2 OF 7
This blog entry, I will examine the first area of involvement in Kerfoot’s constructive and critical reading method of learning how to read: reading as producing a mental movie. Kerfoot suggests that reading is similar to creating a mental movie. Kerfoot asserts that the reader is an active participant in…
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REVIEW OF HOW TO READ, BY J. B. KERFOOT, PART 1 OF 7
This blog entry is the first of seven blog entries reviewing the book How to Read, by J. B. Kerfoot, published in 1916. This blog entry will introduce Kerfoot’s book and will explain the title page inscription of his book, “Reading is a form of living”. Subsequent blog entries will…
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